The Activity: The top secret team who hunted Jihadi John | IBTimes

For more than 30 years, a top secret US special operations intelligence unit known only as “the Activity” has been tracking down America’s enemies around the world for Delta or Seal Team Six to kill or capture, or more recently for drones to assassinate from afar with Hellfire missiles. Now President-Elect Donald Trump’s security advisers say they want the CIA to be more heavily involved in these operations.

In an excerpt from the latest updated eBook of his history of the Activity, Killer Elite, Michael Smith describes its role in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and how the CIA has already become increasingly involved with the work of America’s special operations forces.